Houston’s nailbiter with Texas Tech didn’t have quite the TV drawing power as Texas’ game against the Red Raiders a week ago but still will likely weigh in as one of the 10 most-watched prime time shows in Houston for last week.

The game on ESPN2 did a 7.9 Nielsen household rating in Houston for an average audience of 167,753 households. That should be enough to produce more than 300,000 total viewers for the game; we’ll have those numbers from Nielsen later in the week. Tech-Texas the previous week averaged a 10.9 rating on Channel 13 with 364,000 total viewers.

UH-Tech topped out at a 9.2 rating (195,358 households) from midnight to 12:15 a.m. in Houston. Nationally, the game averaged a 1.5 household rating.

The Texans, meanwhile, dipped in the ratings from a week ago while they were dipping in on-field performance as well. Sunday’s game against the Jaguars averaged an estimated 16.6 Nielsen rating (352,494 households) on Channel 11.

Program note: The New Mexico-Texas Tech game Saturday will air on Fox Sports Plus (Comcast channel 76) because of an Astros conflict before switching about 3:30 p.m. to Fox Sports Houston. The 6 p.m. game will be Kent State-Baylor.

FSH also has picked up the Oklahoma State-Texas A&M game at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 10, the Big 12 announced Monday.

Nothing new on the radio front today, although word has it that Barry Warner and Brad Davies will host a Sunday night show on KILT (610 AM) beginning next week. Dave Harbison and N.D. Kalu hosted the show Sunday. Still no official word on the new morning show co-host with Marc Vandermeer.

Moving along, here are some soundbites time from the Sunday NFL shows:

The luck of the scheduling draw gave CBS first crack at Michael Vick prior to the Chiefs-Eagles game, so James Brown’s interview with Vick held the feature sport on CBS’ The NFL Today.

“My future is bright, you know. I’m excited about it,” he said. “I know what I can do, you know. And I let the critics talk and say what they want to say. But I will be a starter in this league in the future.”

Regarding his backup role to the injured Donovan McNabb and Kevin Kolb, he said, “I actually thought I would be playing for a team and actually starting. But as it turned out, and I think the Lord makes things happen certain ways for certain reasons, and it wasn’t meant for me to be a starter. It was meant for me to be in the role that I’m in now. I’ve got time to work to get myself back into playing shape and learn from one of the best quarterbacks in the game.”

Also, and take this with as much salt as you would like, Charley Casserly thinks Adrian Peterson, the Vikings running back from Palestine, is cruising for a bruising because of his running style.

“Here are the three things I think he’s putting himself at risk for: No. 1, by lowering that head, you have a concussion; No. 2, he’s got an elongated neck and I think he has a greater potential than the average player for a stinger; and finally, if he lowers that head any more, he’s got a potential for a cervical spine injury.”

Fox’s Terry Bradshaw on Michael Vick: “I heard an interview with Mike this week when he said, ‘Superman isn’t quite ready yet.’ If I had the chance to talk to him I’d say don’t ever say Superman again. Don’t ever reference ‘me’ or ‘I’ again, because it’s all about team. Be thankful for (Andy) Reid and the job he’s doing with you and the fact that the Eagles really do want you there. Be a good team guy.”

Fox’s Jimmy Johnson on Tony Romo: “The big knock on Tony Romo is that he plays great against teams he should beat but plays tight in big games. This is not about talent. This is about confidence. How do you create confidence? You have to have him so well-prepared in those big games that he knows he will make the play. And then gear the game plan down to where you don’t put it on his back.”

NBC’s Rodney Harrison on Tom Brady: “Brady is obviously not himself right now. He has to learn patience. He has to know he’s coming off an ACL-MCL injury. It’s going to take a year or year-and-a-half. I had a similar injury as Tom Brady. It took me at least six to eight weeks to really feel comfortable. As a quarterback dropping back, looking downfield, the timing is going to be off course a little bit and he’s not going to be the Tom Brady of old.”

By the way, this week’s joke is on Frank Caliendo, who picked the Texans to beat the Jaguars. Boom!